Easter on Bribie - the story so far.....

....is an entirely different experience to our days so far. We have had the beach and it seems most of the island to ourselves for the rest of the week, but since yesterday the world and his wife showed up.  Well, by comparison.... Yesterday we still had loads of space on the beach and, by English standards, was deserted, but there we certainly lots more people than before. This included parascenders landing near us and half of China pitching up next to us, or so it seemed.  Our day was spent sunning ourselves and little more, really, other than cooking a spag Bol, drinking beer and watching a film. Oh yes and running out of all phone credit, so sorry, no post last night :-( 

Not so today though, it was a very grey start so we decided to head up to Mooloolobar (still not sure I've spelt this right) where it was still grey upon arrival. We encountered some very English traffic on the Bruce Highway heading up there and detoured along a more countrified route which was quite nice. We arrived in Mooloolobar and had lunch at Augellos, who dont shrink back from telling you they are two-time winners of the Best Global Pizza competition.  I had the 2010 winner of hot smoked salmon plus just about everything else you could chuck at a pizza, and very, very nice it was too. 

We strolled around Mooloolobar for a bit, had a bit of a beachcomb and also came upon a very touching war memorial for our canine friends.  One thing I can't wait for is to get home as that signals the search for a new dog for me.  Hopefully I do better this time and don't repeat the Scooby experience.  I frequently wonder how the huge, big, soft lad is getting on, hope he's well and found a much better home than I could give him.  Still miss him and of course my beloved Abs loads and loads, so the new arrival can't come soon enough for me.  Evidently and surprisingly to my mind, Australia is very much a nation of animal lovers, and it seems above most, dogs are much loved here. 

As I write Wayne and Fairy have gone for a walk up to Clive's to get an address for a family do tomorrow. Im s'posed to be dozing rather than writing as Im knackered but hey! it got me out of another walk....... At least, hopefully, this herd of family members are not all seven foot tall like the remainder of the Saunders clan, and I won't come away with another bout of neck ache........

So, another, and thankfully much cooler, day is coming to a close here on Bribie,  two more to go before we head back to Sydney for our last few days in Oz.  Beginning to think about, and look forward to in some ways now,  home, despite the inevitable wild downward mood swing the minute I hit Swanscombe, and get back to the daily grind of work, chores, deadlines and dilemmas.  But, I got my mates to go back to, and that will cushion the blow, so to those of you that know me,  it won't be long before I'm back to bore the arse off you with my tales of 'that country next to New Zealand'...... bet  you all can't wait!

Ps once again this blogger software has proved itself to be the biggest pile of kangaroo s**t I've encountered since I've been here.....it's worse than CF21 by kilometres......